Meteorona, Toshino, Sho, Miyake, Hiroshi & Shibata, Haruka, 2015
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Taxon classification Animalia Chirodropida Chiropsellidae
Genus Meteorona View in CoL gen. n.
Genus diagnosis.
Chiropsellidae with smooth, unbranched, slightly raised gastric saccules. Gonads leaf-shaped. Gastric phacellae horseshoe-shaped. Sensory niches U-shaped, with medial tongue-shape flap on upper rhopaliar scale. Pedalia four, unbranched, scalpel-like with one tentacle per pedalium.
Type species.
Meteorona kishinouyei sp. n. here designated.
Etymology.
The genus name comes from the meteor-like appearance of the jellyfish shooting through the sea while swimming. The name Meteorona is taken from the Latin ‘Meteoron’, with the suffix -a. Gender is feminine.
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